We arrived on February 15th. We decided to take some pictures of his stay.
He was a real champ, and got up extra early, we left the house around 7 am.
Our first step was to check in for his Audiology appointment. Here he is in the waiting room. He was so excited because he saw an extra special person he knew there.
Here he is waiting some more, in-front the of the audiologist office. He'll have several hearing exam's due the fact Radiation and chemotherapy can cause hearing loss. There were no changes in his hearing so far (Yay great news!!). The audiologist advised us we still shouldn't talk about him down the hall.
At 9 am we arrived at the Oncology office (after a detour to pick up a donut at the hospital cafe). Here he had his port accessed, and had his blood tested prior to being admitted for his stay.Around 10 am we were checked into the children's floor, while we waited for his chemotherapy drugs to be delivered. We waited.... and waited. Connor played some video games and watched T.V. He knows how to operate everything now. Around 12:30 we got some lunch... and waited some more.
We waited and waited some more....
Monday's are Craft Day, so Connor participated in making a Tie dyed shirt. (I love how they used the bed pads on the tables for absorbency, I thought that was pretty clever!)
We waited and waited some more, and then Mommy couldn't handle it anymore, I had to find out what our hold up was.
So finally at 2:30 PM, he got hooked up to his machine and started his Chemo, and then he went off to play some more.
We ate Dinner from the Cafe (unfortunately Monday night is Mystery Meat, can you believe the menu has been the same since September? ewww)
We said good bye to Daddy, and settled in. Connor did really well, no nausea over overnight. The next day Connor went to "Hospital School" which he really enjoyed.
Tips I've learned: Bring your own creamer, the powdered stuff doesn't do it and Bring your own pillow.
